Remote Antarctic island is 'richer in biodiversity than the Galapagos'
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 04:30
in Biology & Nature
Antarctica's remote South Georgia Island boasts 90 percent of the world's fur seals, half of the world's elephant seals, is navigated by vast populations of blue whales, sperm whales and killer whales, and has beaches that can be packed shoulder-to-shoulder with nesting penguins. In total, it contains nearly 1,500 recorded species, many of which are found nowhere else on Earth.